{"id":5807,"date":"2016-05-29T19:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2016-05-29T20:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T20:06:02","slug":"if-you-cant-beat-them-buy-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=5807","title":{"rendered":"If you can’t beat em, buy em."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Memorial Day weekend and we are NOT\u00a0out sailing aboard Pandora. \u00a0After a winter aboard we are both happy to hang out “on the hard” and enjoy some time at our “land home” here near the beautiful CT River.<\/p>\n

As I was catching up on all of the snail mail that had piled up\u00a0while we were afloat, and let me tell you that a LOT accumulated in the nearly 5 months we were away, I spied a reference to the winner of this year’s Lora Piana Caribbean Superyacht Regatta held in March. \u00a0The winner was P2, a boat that we had raced against two years ago in Newport. \u00a0When I say “we” I am referring to our time aboard the 182′ ketch that we were invited to sail aboard in that race that was held in\u00a0Newport.<\/p>\n

When we were aboard Marie, she was the LARGEST yacht in Newport Harbor and let me tell you, there are a LOT of REALLY BIG yachts in Newport. \u00a0 Marie has done well on the superyacht racing \u00a0scene but not quite as well as P2, a really high tech composite yacht that we raced against. \u00a0So, what is a superyacht owner to do when they loose a race to another? \u00a0You buy her, of course.<\/p>\n

It it\u00a0seems that P2, which we spied in Ft Lauderdale this winter, has been sold, to none other than Ed, the owner of Marie. \u00a0 Here’s a recent shot of P2 that I snagged from Boat International magazine<\/a>‘s description of P2. \u00a0The shot was taken in Ft Lauderdale near the Los Olas bridge. \u00a0This is a remarkable boat if you can call a 150’ yacht a boat. \u00a0\"\"Hey wait, Pandora looks a bit like her. \u00a0Right? \u00a0\"\"Well Pandora looks like at a minuscule 47′ version if you squint your eyes really, really tight. \u00a0Perhaps Pandora could be a tender to P2, a really little one. \u00a0 Here’s an idea. \u00a0As Ed still owns Marie, his 180′ ketch, he can use her as a tender, or perhaps a better description would to call her a “hotel”, when Ed is out on P2, doing her stuff, tearing up the racing circuit.<\/p>\n

Here’s a video of P2. \u00a0What an amazing boat! \u00a0